Basic Personal Counselling (BPC) is an easy-to-read introduction to counselling skills for both professional and volunteer counsellors, and workers in the helping professions. This ninth edition of Basic Personal Counselling includes new content on self-care and the use of technology in counselling, as well as examples of counselling skills in practice. It encourages you to find ways of testing out your assumptions and discover if there is more that you could do or learn to improve and develop in your chosen career. Journaling, video recording with playback and reflecting team supervision are explained as opportunities to process and monitor your practice, along with easy-to-use templates to record your progress.